And the manager will demand an improvement when City take on League One Dons at Nuneaton Town’s Liberty Way tomorrow night (7pm).

“What we spoke about on Tuesday night is that we need to work harder without the ball and we need to work harder when we have got the ball, rather than ghost through it and think that it’s just a pre-season friendly, because there’s no such thing," said Robins .

“They know that, but it looked to me that they decided they were just going to get their way through the game.